I prefer Illustrator. I've done MANY pixel art pieces using Illustrator. Theres a wonderful little tool in terms of turning on the background grid, turning on "Stap to grid" and making a box, you can just copy and paste the boxes, and the fit right in place. As a matter of fact, here's one of me i did.

Its a screen cap of a piece i'm working on, so excuse the extra crap on the side.

I prefer Illustrator. I've done MANY pixel art pieces using Illustrator. Theres a wonderful little tool in terms of turning on the background grid, turning on "Stap to grid" and making a box, you can just copy and paste the boxes, and the fit right in place. As a matter of fact, here's one of me i did.

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Wouldn't that be harder? In Fireworks I just zoom in until the transparency grid matches the resolution, and use the pencil tool from there. I couldn't imagine assembling little boxes, and drawing them one by one.

It's also really easy to assemble tiles in Fireworks thanks to it's 'object' system, as opposed to the 'layer' system that most image editors (such as Photoshop, GIMP, Paint.NET) use.

I prefer Illustrator. I've done MANY pixel art pieces using Illustrator. Theres a wonderful little tool in terms of turning on the background grid, turning on "Stap to grid" and making a box, you can just copy and paste the boxes, and the fit right in place. As a matter of fact, here's one of me i did.

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Wouldn't that be harder? In Fireworks I just zoom in until the transparency grid matches the resolution, and use the pencil tool from there. I couldn't imagine assembling little boxes, and drawing them one by one.

It's also really easy to assemble tiles in Fireworks thanks to it's 'object' system, as opposed to the 'layer' system that most image editors (such as Photoshop, GIMP, Paint.NET) use.

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Its a breeze in Illustrator. Because each box is the same size, when i say copy/paste, i mean hold Option and use the arrows. its like drawing one point at a time. And its soooo quick. Awesome fun.